The increase in complexity from simple replicating molecules to complex animal societies has involved approximately eight major evolutionary transitions 6,7. Almost all of these transitions have ...

In the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, when “sleeping with someone was almost like shaking hands,” womanizers had a certain allure, according to Norris Church Mailer in her charming new memoir A Ticket to ...

Book shines light on the reasons for some teenage girls' promiscuity. Sept. 22, 2011 — -- Kerry Cohen is a psychotherapist, and the author of the memoir "Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity." In ...

Sex is one of those things that nearly everyone has an opinion about. Although people are generally hesitant to talk about their own sex lives, ask them what they think about what others are doing ...

For far too long, women have been seen as secondary to men under the patriarchal rule of human society. Yet, humanity's existence has been a minor blip in the history of the Earth, where females are ...

"Slutty" behavior is good for the species. That's the conclusion of a new wave of research on the evolutionary drives behind sexuality and parenting. Women everywhere have been selflessly engaging in ...

Via Andrew Sullivan, I see that the gay journalist Marc Ambinder has come up with a provocative neologism in his latest Week column. Excerpt: Where will we end up? Will promiscuity define young gays ...

This post is in response to Dr. Steven Reiss's recent piece on motivational analysis vs. psychodynamic analysis of behavior, which I found exceedingly interesting and provocative. Reiss analyzes ...

A team of researchers has announced a major new advance in understanding how our genetic information eventually translates into functional proteins -- one of the building blocks of human life. The ...

LAST FEB. 11, A FORMER ARKANSAS STATE employee named Paula Jones called a press conference in Washington and claimed that on May 8, 1991, Gov. Bill Clinton asked her to meet him in a Little Rock hotel ...